Millions allotted for West Leyte Hospital upgrade

Press Release
By Provincial Media Relations Center (PMRC-Leyte)
March 30, 2007

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte  –  Through a newly signed Memorandum of Agreement with the provincial government of Leyte, the Department of Health in the region has committed an amount of P12 million to upgrade the facilities of the West Leyte Hospital of Baybay, Leyte.

This as part of Gov. Carlos Jericho “Icot” Petilla’s effort to look for means of improving the medical facilities and services of the different hospitals under the provincial government that includes the West Leyte Hospital in Baybay town.

According to the governor, the province, under his administration is putting much effort in reducing the number of patients being catered to by hospitals based in the City of Tacloban.

Not only are the hospitals in this city get crowded by patients coming from the different towns in Leyte, the medical facilities are likewise wanting, which Gov. Petilla stressed are the problems that really need to be addressed.

Under the newly signed MOA, new infrastructures and equipments will be installed as well as additional needed supply of medicines will be purchased for the West Leyte Hospital.

With these new improvements, the hospital will subsequently be upgraded from a secondary hospital to a tertiary medical facility.

The MOA was recently forged at the Leyte Provincial Capitol with Dr. Minerva Molon, chief of the DOH Technical Division as representative of the health department and Gov. Petilla for the province of Leyte.

It can be recalled that Gov. Petilla has continuously poured in projects to the different hospitals and improvements of rural health units of the different municipalities of the province to decongest hospitals in the city.

Values formation among hospital members and staff were likewise successively conducted by the provincial government to renew and assess the commitment within the ranks of the province-run hospitals.